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The Multipoly has some great filter models. No doubt it can do that sound. 😄

Effects certainly help. :)

@@ilovecatsandsynths9702 Sure, especially for the MicroFreak. But my impression is that additional effects for the CPM are really a good thing although it has internal effects.

@ True. The CPM’s effects are pretty limited and lo-fi sounding. External effects take it to the next level.

@@ilovecatsandsynths9702 So i will test it with my Eventide Blackhole. Everything sounds huge then 😂

I had it patched to the PWM in.

@ Pulse Width Modulation, gotcha 😆.

You can do a lot of the same things on other synths. Try on your Grandmother for example, or another analog synth with a self oscillating filter. And I love seeing Gracie too. 😍

Yes, 6 “AA” cells.

I'm glad I can entertain people's cats over the internet. 😻

Thanks. 😁 I’m a corporate drone during the week so my next vid might not be until the weekend, but my next one I think will be DS-2 w/Korg SQ-1 and external effects.

@ilovecatsandsynths9702 Oh yes please! Korg SQ-1 is one of my favourite pieces of gear ever! I've just got a second one eheh! Thanks a lot buddy 👍

Resistance is futile. You will be asynthalated!

I’m glad I can entertain people’s cats with my creations. 😂

@@ilovecatsandsynths9702 haha thats what synths are for sometimes. Awesome videos!

Yes you can. It has a speaker and can drone on batteries, and doesn’t require any patching. Of course, if you pack some cables you can do even more, and plug it into your recorder.

​@@ilovecatsandsynths9702 i have received my DS-2 yesterday actually, and currently going through the setup and everything related. It seems there is no sound coming through the built in speaker 🔊 when switching the synth on, hence the previous question. It is running on batteries at the momebt as i am waiting for a 12 V DC adaptor to arrive. Not really sure what it could possibly be. My volume knob, the main one is all the way up but can barely hear anything, other then a low hissing sound. Thinking if this could be a firmware issue or something else, i have sent an email to Stylophone and still waiting for a reply, hopefully they can come up with a plausible solution.

@ilovecatsandsynths9702 Thanks for the prompt response. I actually received my DS-2 yesterday and currently going through the setup and everything, etc.. Unfortunately I ran into some issues here, hopefully these can be rectified accordingly, hence the my previous question to your video. When I switch the drone synth one ( it is powered by batteries at the moment, but waiting for a standard 12 V DC adaptor to arrive shortly ) it doesn't produce any sound at all, I mean I can clearly see the red lights are on, on the LDO side but nothing coming out through the mini built in speaker. I turned the volume know, the main one all the way up, also the one adjacent to the phones port, still no results, only a vague, dimmed hissing sound. Starting to think if I am doing something wrong, or it is literally a firmware fault/issue, I haven't done/ tampered with anything, just simply removed it from the box it came through. I have reached out to Stylophone by email but nothing yet, so hopefully they will come up with a plausible solution to this. It is a bit frustrating especially after being on the waiting list for an year lol 🙃

Just to take into consideration, some minor grammar errors in my previous message because I was typing fast in my phone, but the whole picture should be understandable.

@ I’d start by centering all the knobs, instead of having them all fully counterclockwise as it comes out of the box. Make sure the filter is on LP, turn cutoff up, turn resonance down, and turn up the individual drone volume at the bottom right in the filter section. Start with the LFO waveforms turned off just to eliminate that variable from the equation, and concentrating on getting a sound out of one drone generator first. The phones volume also controls the speaker volume if phones aren’t plugged in. The main out volume controls the main output level.

A power supply is not included, but 6 "AA" batteries are. It needs a 12V w/minimum of 200mA center-positive barrel connector power supply, like the ones many synths use. I used one that came with my Moog Werkstatt-01 and it worked fine. You can find PSUs on Amazon that are compatible. The instructions say it will shut down below 5.5V or so, but that's when using the 6 AA batteries. I don't know if a 9V supply would work or if it has to be 12V. Don't use a pedal power supply as those are usually center negative! You can also remove it from the case and mount it into a Eurorack enclosure and use the standard Eurorack power connector.

@@ilovecatsandsynths9702 Thank you so much for your advice. I will try it.😀

@@ilovecatsandsynths9702 The power supply I bought on eBay worked perfectly. Thank you very much!🤩 12V 1A 1000MA POWER SUPPLY 2 METER CABLE CENTRE POSITIVE POLARITY 2.5 MM X 5.5MM

Catfish? 🤣 My Take 5 does a better meow. 24db filters and narrow pulse wave for best results.

Guess you just have to keep experimenting. The rate of the fall is the LFO rate so that’s easy to lower. If you want the pinging speed to be lower, I found that if you pitch link both drones, turn drone 1’s pitch down, you can get drone 2’s pitch even lower, so try that for slower pinging.

Great tutorial. I’d done my bubbles simply by ear and experimentation. I think I’d done basically the same. It sounds lovely.

@ I just watched your demo. Lovely stuff. This is definitely a happy accident machine. Experiment and you’re sure to come across something amazing.

Hook my Keystep up and have my cat control it 😁

In a future video. :)

I hope to try it soon, I expect my DS-2 to be delivered tomorrow. Meanwhile I watched your videos - well done and thank you for the ideas!

Good job. I’m trying to sync the LFO’s to external clock. Quite impossibile. The only option is patching a clock signal to LFO rate. It creates a sort of sync. Any other ideas?

@ do you mean patching clock to LFO reset? That’s the closest thing you’ll get to clock sync with an analog LFO. Patching a clock to LFO rate will just make the rate change in time with the clock signals, like when I accidentally patched my Keystep gate to the LFO rate and it sped up when I played a note, 😆

Weirdly patching a clock to rate gives more interesting results than to reset. Thanks

@@danpreston564 Use LFO sawtooth to filter for the "falling" part, turn up resonace to get the dropping tone, and set the oscillator to a square and turn the frequency down to get the modulation. Tweak resonance to get the filter to respond to the osc "pings" the way you want. Add delay and reverb, done.

I’m just not getting it! Your LFO is really slow but is pinging really fast! 33 years with synths and my brain has finally turned to mush.

Is it the modulation on the delay that’s making the fall?

​​​@@danpreston564LFO is only making the pitch go down by modulating filter cutoff (Each LFO cycle is another "falling star".) The pinging is from the VCO on square turned almost all the way down on the pitch knob. The patch is sort of the opposite of what you might expect...the VCO is acting as an LFO, the filter is the oscillator and the LFO is a pitch envelope. 😂

@ blimey, the sweet spot on the resonance and pitch to get it sounding right is very small! Thanks for your time, man.

@@enochroot9438 haha, just watched it!

I didn’t mention in the video that in addition to Eurorack style patch cables, they included a 3.5mm TRS-to-TRS audio cable, an inline attenuator and a splitter cable.

@@ilovecatsandsynths9702 wow, this is really wonderful!